THERE was a new format to the Creightons hunter section at Balmoral Show this week but, as was the case last year, the supreme championship was won by a five-year-old gelding produced and ridden by Co Wicklow’s Jane Bradbury for longterm owner, Daphne Tierney.

On this occasion, it was the heavyweight bay, Bloomfield Aristocratic, who most impressed judges Katie Jerram Hunnable, Chris Hunnable and Jody Sole. The Kannan gelding won his class on Wednesday ahead of Paulette Cooper’s MJM Laszlo, while, in Thursday’s weight championship, he stood ahead of the four-year-old winner, Thady Lynch’s Natal gelding Killycloghan Supreme Time.